Mike, lost my first response. Regarding the statements about Pope barrels at Mid and Long Range using modern calibers and Jacketed Bullets. I have a Jersey City Pope Hiwall in .25 Niedner Krag. It has all the Woodchuck rifle changes, steep turned Pistol grip, shortened lower and upper Tang, Double Sets, big fat cheek piece stock. I borrowed some Niedner tools for making cases and formed up a batch. As a guess I loaded 39 Grs of 3031 behind a Remington 100 Gr soft point hunting bullet. At the range witha 20x Lyman STS I got it zeroed and then had a friend who was a good bench shooter take over. He fired a 10 shot group that measured one caliber wide and 1/2" long vertically. The neck area of the case is so tight that you cannot push a .25 caliber jacketed bullet into the as fired case by hand. Guess he had not lost his touch at Jersey City. Regards, FITZ.
